Japanese name: トサムラサキ（土佐紫） Scientific name:Callicarpa shikokiana
A deciduous shrub 1–2 m tall, growing at woodland edges and similar places.
The branches are thin and have short, upward-pointing hairs.
The leaves are simple and opposite, oblong, 4–12 cm long and 1–3 cm wide, with a long tail-like pointed tip and coarse serrations along the margin.
Both surfaces of the leaves have pale yellow-green glandular dots, and short hairs grow along the veins.
The petiole is 5–7 mm long.
Cymes are borne in the leaf axils, bearing pale reddish purple, sometimes white, flowers.
The flowers are about 3 mm across; the corolla is 4-lobed with glandular dots on the outside, and the 4 stamens protrude far out.
The fruit is spherical, 2 mm across, and ripens to a beautiful purple.
